Wednesday April 10, 2013 Stats 155 Class Notes

A Metaphor for ANOVA

The Harlem Globetrotters are a basketball team. For the past 85 years, they have played basketball against their own opponents: a sham team. Often, towards the end of the show, they bring members of the audience down onto the court to play against them.

Keep track of the (square)points scored and numbers of players on the court. This corresponds to the sum of squares and the degrees of freedom. The question is, are the model terms more effective at scoring (per player) than the kids?

Draw up a table.

Finish up the structure of the ANOVA table.

Basic information

anova(lm(wage ~ 1, data = CPS85))
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: wage
##            Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)
## Residuals 533  14077    26.4
var(wage, data = CPS85)
## [1] 26.41

F into p

Simulation approach: Go to Planet Null

anova(lm(wage ~ sector, data = CPS85))
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: wage
##            Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)    
## sector      7   2572     367    16.8 <2e-16 ***
## Residuals 526  11505      22                   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
anova(lm(wage ~ sector, data = CPS85))[1, 4]
## [1] 16.8
s = do(1000) * anova(lm(wage ~ shuffle(sector), data = CPS85))[1, 4]
densityplot(~result, data = s)

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Compare to the theoretical distribution:

densityplot(~result, data = s)
plotFun(df(x, 7, 526) ~ x, col = "red", add = TRUE)

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Watch out for long tails

ACTIVITY: Find the influence of the two parameters in the F distribution:

Also look at

Question: How do these three things affect how big F has to be to be above the threshold?

Produce a general description

fetchData("mHypTest.R")
mHypTest(TRUE)  # by default, a coefficient

One-way ANOVA (so called)

Several levels of a categorical variable. Null hypothesis is generally phrased as “the levels are all the same.”

t-test: two levels.

Professors: many levels.

Two categorical variables

Example: Sector and sex

mod = lm(wage ~ sector * sex, data = CPS85)
anova(mod)
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: wage
##             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)    
## sector       7   2572     367   17.50 < 2e-16 ***
## sex          1    436     436   20.77 6.5e-06 ***
## sector:sex   6    175      29    1.39    0.22    
## Residuals  519  10894      21                    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Have we detected an interaction?

ACTIVITY

Create the set of nested models and construct the ANOVA table by hand.

Digression: Log prices and wages

Prices are relative. An indication of this is the almost universal use of percentages to describe inflation, wage increases, etc. For example, an often quoted number is that women earn approximately 72 cents for each dollar earned by a man.

The naive way to find this number, which is in fact the way it is found, is to divide the average wage of women by the average wage of men, e.g.

mean(wage ~ sex, data = CPS85)
##     F     M 
## 7.879 9.995
7.88/9.99
## [1] 0.7888

Close to the quoted number in this data set from the 1980s.

A better way is to work with log wages, find the contribution from sex, and then convert that back into a multiplier. That let's us adjust for various other factors. Here's the basic calculation, done in log-wage style:

lm(log(wage) ~ sex, data = CPS85)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = log(wage) ~ sex, data = CPS85)
## 
## Coefficients:
## (Intercept)         sexM  
##       1.934        0.231
exp(-0.2312)
## [1] 0.7936

Now we can include covariates:

lm(log(wage) ~ sex + sector + exper + educ, data = CPS85)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = log(wage) ~ sex + sector + exper + educ, data = CPS85)
## 
## Coefficients:
##   (Intercept)           sexM    sectorconst    sectormanag    sectormanuf  
##        0.6978         0.2197         0.1637         0.2087         0.0447  
##   sectorother     sectorprof    sectorsales  sectorservice          exper  
##        0.0393         0.1976        -0.1513        -0.1539         0.0118  
##          educ  
##        0.0761
exp(-0.2197)
## [1] 0.8028

Hardly any difference. But maybe the model should be more complicated.

Activity

Use ANOVA and log wages to see if interactions should be included in the model. Example:

mod = lm(log(wage) ~ sector * sex, data = CPS85)
anova(mod)
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: log(wage)
##             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)    
## sector       7   27.0    3.86   17.78 < 2e-16 ***
## sex          1    5.4    5.44   25.06 7.6e-07 ***
## sector:sex   6    3.2    0.53    2.46   0.024 *  
## Residuals  519  112.8    0.22                    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Student Activity

Question: Is there an interaction between age and mileage in the used car data? Does it show up if we look at log prices?

cars = fetchData("used-hondas.csv")
## Retrieving from http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/datasets/used-hondas.csv
anova(lm(log(Price) ~ Age * Mileage, data = cars))
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: log(Price)
##             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)    
## Age          1   8.33    8.33  599.43 <2e-16 ***
## Mileage      1   2.19    2.19  157.41 <2e-16 ***
## Age:Mileage  1   0.05    0.05    3.29  0.073 .  
## Residuals   88   1.22    0.01                   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Example: Do professors vary in how they grade? Revisited

One place where F shines is when we want to look at many explanatory vectors collectively.

In the last class, we looked at professor-wise gradepoint averages, with an eye to the question of whether some professors are easy grading. We used as a test statistic, the model coefficient for each professor, and ran into the question of multiple comparisons.

Now let's return to the question using analysis of variance.

grades = fetchData("grades.csv")
## Retrieving from http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/datasets/grades.csv
courses = fetchData("courses.csv")
## Retrieving from http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/datasets/courses.csv
g2n = fetchData("grade-to-number.csv")
## Retrieving from http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/datasets/grade-to-number.csv
all = merge(grades, courses)
all = merge(all, g2n)  # a data set of every grade given, etc.

Suppose, instead of being concerned about individual professors, we were interested in the professorate as a whole: do they grade in a consistent way, where “consistent” means, “draw grades from a common pool.” This test can be done easily. Build the model and see if the explanatory variable accounts for more than is likely to arise from chance:

mod1 = lm(gradepoint ~ iid, data = all)
r.squared(mod1)
## [1] 0.1745

The regression report actually gives a p-value for this r.squared. It's not any different than we would get by travelling to Planet Null: randomizing iid and seeing what is the distribution of R2 on Planet Null.

Another way to summarize the model is with an ANOVA report:

anova(mod1)
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: gradepoint
##             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)    
## iid        358    352   0.983    3.16 <2e-16 ***
## Residuals 5350   1665   0.311                   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Theory of F

Explain R2 in terms of the graph of (hypothetical) R2 versus number of junky model vectors. F is the ratio of segment slopes

Now do it stepwise by finding the sum of squares of the fitted model values in a set of models ~1 and ~1 + iid

A way to think of the F statistic: miles per gallon for the model terms compared to miles per gallon for the

Breaking up the Variance into Parts

Of course, it's not fair to credit professors for variation in grades that is really due to the students. So we want to divide up the variation into that due to the students and that due to the professors. ANOVA let's you do this:

mod2 = lm(gradepoint ~ sid + iid, data = all)
anova(mod2)
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: gradepoint
##             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)    
## sid        442    645   1.459    6.76 <2e-16 ***
## iid        358    313   0.873    4.04 <2e-16 ***
## Residuals 4908   1060   0.216                   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

Interestingly, the result depends on the order in which you put the model terms, even though the model values do not at all depend on this.

mod3 = lm(gradepoint ~ iid + sid, data = all)
anova(mod3)
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: gradepoint
##             Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)    
## iid        358    352   0.983    4.55 <2e-16 ***
## sid        442    606   1.370    6.34 <2e-16 ***
## Residuals 4908   1060   0.216                   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
sum((fitted(mod2) - fitted(mod3))^2)  # model values are the same
## [1] 1.039e-22

Eating Up the Variance

The F statistic compares the “credit” earned by a model term to the mean square residual, which can be interpreted as the credit that would be earned by a junky random term.

Fit a model and add in some random terms. Show that the F for the random terms is about 1 and that the mean square of the residual is hardly changed by the random terms.

mod0 = lm(wage ~ sector + sex + exper, data = CPS85)
anova(mod0)
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: wage
##            Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)    
## sector      7   2572     367    17.8 < 2e-16 ***
## sex         1    436     436    21.1 5.3e-06 ***
## exper       1    264     264    12.8 0.00037 ***
## Residuals 524  10805      21                    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

The mean square residual is about 20.

Now throw in some junk:

mod10 = lm(wage ~ sector + sex + exper + rand(10), data = CPS85)
anova(mod10)
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: wage
##            Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)    
## sector      7   2572     367    17.8 < 2e-16 ***
## sex         1    436     436    21.1 5.5e-06 ***
## exper       1    264     264    12.8 0.00038 ***
## rand(10)   10    185      19     0.9 0.53644    
## Residuals 514  10620      21                    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

But what if a term eats more variance than a junky term. That term makes it easier for the other terms to show significance.

EXAMPLE: Difference in age between husband and wife in couples getting married.

Ask: Who is older in a married couple, the man or the woman? By how much?

Let's see if the data support this:

m = fetchData("marriage.csv")
## Retrieving from http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/datasets/marriage.csv
mod0 = mm(Age ~ Person, data = m)
mod0
## Groupwise Model.
## Call:
## Age ~ Person
## 
## Coefficients:
## Bride  Groom  
##  33.2   35.8
confint(mod0)
##   group 2.5 % 97.5 %
## 1 Bride 29.15  37.33
## 2 Groom 31.70  39.87
mod1 = lm(Age ~ Person, data = m)
summary(mod1)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = Age ~ Person, data = m)
## 
## Residuals:
##    Min     1Q Median     3Q    Max 
## -17.42 -12.02  -3.34   8.80  39.56 
## 
## Coefficients:
##             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)    33.24       2.06   16.13   <2e-16 ***
## PersonGroom     2.55       2.91    0.87     0.38    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 
## 
## Residual standard error: 14.4 on 96 degrees of freedom
## Multiple R-squared: 0.00789, Adjusted R-squared: -0.00245 
## F-statistic: 0.763 on 1 and 96 DF,  p-value: 0.384

The point estimate is about right, but the margin of error is so large that we can't take this estimate very seriously. The p-value is so large that we can't reject the null that there is no relationship between Person and age.

Try adding in some other variables, astrological sign, years of education, etc. and show that this doesn't help much.

Finally, add in the BookpageID variable.

mod2 = lm(Age ~ Person + BookpageID, data = m)
anova(mod2)
## Analysis of Variance Table
## 
## Response: Age
##            Df Sum Sq Mean Sq F value Pr(>F)    
## Person      1    159     159    9.07 0.0041 ** 
## BookpageID 48  19127     398   22.77 <2e-16 ***
## Residuals  48    840      18                   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
head(confint(mod2))
##                        2.5 % 97.5 %
## (Intercept)          18.7105 30.728
## PersonGroom           0.8461  4.245
## BookpageIDB230p1354  -9.1763  7.648
## BookpageIDB230p1665  -6.6544 10.169
## BookpageIDB230p1948 -13.7133  3.111
## BookpageIDB230p539   -3.7393 13.085

This gives an individual ID to each marriage. Putting this in the model effectively holds the couple constant when considering the Person. In terms of ANOVA, BookpageID is eating up lots and lots of variance.